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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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This paper examines the heavily supported Swiss food and agriculture sector. It reviews some of the key features and …
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The problems of Japanese agriculture – in particular low productivity and the prevalence of part-time farmers and small … plots have been evident for the past 50 years. The high level and distortionary nature of agriculture support imposes … future of the agricultural sector. In the absence of fundamental reform, the Japanese agriculture will continue to wither …
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based on four blocks with 40% of the weight on agriculture/rural factors and 20% each on broader economy-wide governance … agriculture’s enabling environment would help provide an important input into better policy decisions. …
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catalogue of targets and policies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU …
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economic performance in agriculture. Examining these twin impacts is essential for understanding the scope for “win … successfully deliver on their objectives to improve the environmental performance of agriculture, and ii) whether agri … innovation, economic performance and structural change in agriculture. It brings together literature from across a range of …
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of the agriculture sector, including the potentially contradictory signals policies may send. It considers impacts for … impacts of land use choice. Beyond this, policies can also affect agriculture’s environmental performance by stimulating (or …
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This report analyses trends in agriculture for the US Southwest region, one of the most water stressed and productive … implications for the agriculture sector, based on a review of existing data and available publications. The region will likely … water risks, such as agricultural and urban water efficiency improvements, refined groundwater management, investment in …
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